Butcher Ridge
| Butcher Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 12 ′ S , 155 ° 48 ′ E | |
Butcher Ridge is a large and mostly ice-free mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises near the polar plateau in the western part of the Cook Mountains . The arched ridge extends from Mount Ayres in a north-westerly direction.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Harold Kenneth Butcher (1916-2008), air operations officer on the staff of the United States Navy Support Units in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze in 1963 and 1964.
Web links
- Butcher Ridge at the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Butcher Ridge on geographic.org (English)